Yarn ball holder



March 26, 194(1 s. MILLER I 2,194,609

' YARN BALL HOLDER FiI edMayZO. 1959 15 gradual use of the thread. .A feature of this only a limited circular movement of the, ball in 15 Patented Mar. 26 1940 i I I 2,194,609

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YARN BALL HOLD-ER Sigrid Miller, Porter, Minn. Application May 20, 1939, Serial No. 274,839 1 Claim, (c1. 24-3) My invention relates to improvements in a disposed object designated by the outline E device best designated as a yarn ball holder. and (dotted) which may represent a belt, or the comprising a simple and highly emcient device rim of a work basket placed at the edge of a for suspending a ball of yarn or other strand table (not shown) 5 material in convenient position for unwinding S in Fig. l designates a common type of crochet 5 the strand as used, for example by a person thread ball usually wound in a nearly globular doing crochet work, tatting, darning or other form about an open core S2 the ball being shown work requiring such strand in a slowly progresin suspension and engaged by the prong B2 at sive unwinding action. or near the core S2. The free end of the thread, In the use of this device a ball of yarn or designated S3, is shown extendingfrom the ball. 10 other strand material may be suspended from The thread may be unwound as used, freely the arm of a person doing work of the kind and unhampered, such thread balls being ordistated, or the ball may be suspended from any narily machine wound on a bias around the core. other convenient place near the work requiring The chain construction disclosed allows of course device is'its extreme simplicity and application, horizontal plane but sulficient to permit easy allowing strand to be unwound freely and ununwinding of the threadand simultaneously prehampered. vents the thread from contacting and in any way In the accompanying drawing: I becoming entangled on the suspension chain.

Fig. 1 is an elevation of a preferred embodiment In the use of the device With ring C (per Fig. l) 20 of my device in position connected to and susthe ring is an arm band slipped for example pending a ball of yarn, and Fig. 2 is a modificaon the right arm of a person, toward the elbow, tion of Fig. 1 omittingthe ball of yarn. the yarn or crochet thread ball being thus sus Referring to the drawing by reference letters pended the thread S3 unwinds from the ball like characters designate corresponding parts in in a direction away from the chain as shown. 25 both views, the suspending means of my device Obviously the ring can also be slipped over and comprises preferably a length of light chain A upon the front end of an arm rest of a chair preferably about two and one-half inches in and the ball 8 is thus suspended absolutely free length. from contact with a garment'o-r other object.

From the lower link of said chain extends a The use of my device has been fully disclosed 30 wire hook member B of approximately the shape simultaneously with the foregoing description of of a common fish-hook the eye end of which is its preferred and modified construction.

engaged permanently in said link andthe hook I claim: end is bent out and upwardlyin inclined plane In a holder of the class described, the comas a prong designated B2. bination of an upper suspending member, an 35 C designates an arm band which may comprise intermediate elongated, flexible member and a as shown a single loop of wire the connecting lower hook member, all connected, the said interends of which may comprise a small eye 02 mediate member p i n a len th of chain engaging a, larger eye (:3 th l tt being 1 removably connected to said upper member, said gated t form h k (34 hi h may b Sprung lowermost member comprising a wire hook 0 t t insert or remove t uppermost link of I formed with an eye engaging the lowermostlink t chain of said chain and the hook depending therefrom,

D designates. a closing type spring metal the lower part of said hook comprising an uppin resembling an elongated safety pin. In Fig. weirdly and p 'q dnfected. P adaptfid to 1 this pin is on the ring C and may be used to engaged m the slde of ball of strand i 45 fasten onto any convenient article such as the Sam uppfar orsuspenqmg member c9mp nsmg cloth in a sleeve, a curtain or other convenient loop of Wire or he hke formed 71th object by which the entire. device may be engaged eye-loops at its closed end, one of said suspendedh eye-loops elongated and adapted to be opened 0 AS a variation, shown in Fig 2, the ring C is for insertion'of or removal of the uppermost removed, pin D being connected directly to the link of the q top link and said pin engaging a horizontally sIGR'm 

